Re: Too many editor tabs?
David Strupl <[email protected]>
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I am quite strongly for the "history browsing GUI element" instead of "history browsing action". The action will be never discovered by the user. We need some visual element - but this is just IMHO. I like the tabs idea (hmm, I have proposed it ;-) ) but if it is only pop down (or pop up) somewhere it might be enough. But I insist on debugger, search results and Ctrl-Click (and maybe some other actions) opening the files in this temp area not to clutter the "really" opened files area that we have on the top. And there must be some easy way of moving the file from the temp to the opened list. What do the others think? David Marian Petras wrote: > I would not use tabs for the "temp area". The reason is that there would > be many of them which is exactly the problem we want to solve. Another > reason is that you do not need to have all files from the "temp area" so > quickly accessible. To summarize, I would use only the "history browsing > GUI element" or better just a "history browsing action". > > Marian > > > David Strupl wrote: >> Hi Marian, >> >> what about following GUI: >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >> | A x | B x | | | | >> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >> | | > > . . > > . . > > . . >> | | >> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >> | ^ C x | ^ D x | | | X | >> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> "Permanent Area": >> ---------------- >> Top of the editor tab (area with A, B) - like what we have today. >> "Temp Area": >> ------------ >> Bottom of the editor area: temporarily opened files by: >> a. debugger >> b. code browsing (Ctrl-click) >> c. search (in files) and find usages >> >> In the Temp Area you have tabs enhanced with up arrow ^ which would >> move the file to the permanent area. Moving up can be also achieved by >> e.g. editing the file (?). >> >> Also there is X in the permanent area closing all temporarily opened >> tabs. >> >> The temp area can have tabs (to keep it consistent with the rest of >> the GUI ?) or it can be some history browsing GUI element. >> >> Of course there might be an option to enable/disable this sort of >> thing ;-)) >> >> What do you (and the others) think? Haven't heard from our GUI expert >> group yet ... Or is it forbidden for developers to have an opinion >> about the GUI usability? >> >> David